NEWCASTLE - 8

[maxtoon]

might accelerate the need for the extension at the 25' threshold !

[Ops Guy]

No chance

[Jamesair]

New Channel Islands start-up, Channel Connect. launching in November includes Newcastle as one of its planned destinations. It plans a fleet of 12 aircraft and will operate from Jersey and Guernsey.

source - Airliner World.

[sunshine79]

What's going on with the LHR flights today? I noticed the BA1326, as it is delayed by 5hrs 40 mins? Wouldn't it be just as quick to coach them to NCL?

[mmeteesside]

Try the weather Massive delays due to thunderstorms.

[nclops]

BA1326 delayed due to tech problems before leaving LHR.

[geordiejet]

Apparently it was a full A321 so they could not send them up on a spare 320. And no other A321s or 757s spare so they had to grin and bear it. Heck of a delay

[EGNT]

Whilst on the topic of BA, they brought one of their 767-300ER's up to NCL last week on the late evening flight...anyone know if it was because of pax numbers or tech a.c?

[nclops]

The reason the 763 was in was either due to crewing or tech (i think it was a crewing issue though). It definetly wasn't due to pax numbers as both sectors could have been handled by a 320 (think it was about 150 in and 50 out)

[Sam Chipperfield]

Easyjet A319

Just looked on this months timetable, should b a 4th A319 based up here from this month.

[transwede]

Thomson Holidays are opening up NCL to Kos for next summer, a new destination for the group for NCL in addition to previously announced routes and the re-introduction of PUJ.

[Sam Chipperfield]

EZY NCL

Does anybody no when the 4th A319 due here, its says on the monthly timetable it should already be here, but its still a 737?

[simonwa]

EZY delays

What is with all the already announced EZY delays for tomorrow (Tuesday)?

EZY6425 06:00 PALMA DELAYED 09:40
EZY6481 09:40 NICE DELAYED 11:30
EZY6431 12:55 PALMA DELAYED 16:20
EZY6407 16:10 MALAGA DELAYED 17:15

How do they know these delays already? Tech problems with one aircraft?

Any reason why the MLA flight today was over 3 hours late?

[GrahamK]

simonwa,

The French aren't on strike tomorrow are they?

[DL93]

All of the easyjet delays are due flight deck shortages, there will be a further delay to the late BFS which ops on the end of the 2nd PMI problems today also with the MLA & early afternoon BRS,

[Jamesair]

According to the JET2 website, summer 2010 flights are available for booking....NCL flights don't seem to have been uploaded into the system yet.

anyone know when this will happen? and is there anything new next year?

[The Flying Stool]

RE; Northern Lights Flight

I went on a Northern lights sight seeing flight from Newcastle in March last year. They generally occur in March and November. When we travelled it was in a Jet2 737 but I believe they have used other aircraft and operators in the past. The evening usually begins with an hours briefing with an astronomer before heading over to to the airport to check in for the flight. During the flight, ALL lights are turned off, (including Nav lights and strobes etc). The flight heads up to just north of the Shetland Islands and flies gentle figure eights before heading home. The whole flight lasts around 3 hours and gets back into newcastle at round midnight. Don't worry if when you check in if you don't get a window seat, everyone is rotated around regularly throughout the flight.

Hope that has cleared a few things up for you.

Adam

[Jamesair]

The CAA pax figures for June are a mixed bag with Dubai up 8% on last June and Gatwick with a good rise, Heathrow rises, Stansted falls (with flight reductions) and Dublin meets the same fate. Several holiday routes have situations where the Charter element has fallen and the scheduled route has an increase in pax.

[Jamesair]

Just been reading a report allegedly from the "Sunday Sun" about 180 pax removed from a BA Heathrow flight on Saturday after the aircraft went tech.
The aircraft was a 747.....surely that can't be correct.

[nclops]

Nah, dodgy reporting as usual. Aircraft was an A321.